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The Twentieth Century was a time of war and carnage that had spread throughout the world. Some wars only caused a few thousand deaths, but in others, millions died. There was armed conflict somewhere on the Earth each year of that century. That...

I stood and stared at a simple red accordion. I imagined hearing the sounds emanating from the instrument. A nine-year old boy named Alex Rosner—a Schindler Jew— played it for the Nazi guards when he was in Poland at the Auschwitz...

Urban Outfitters has once again gone too far. This time, a line of Nazi-reminiscent tapestries resembling the garb worn by concentration camp prisoners was being offered on their website. It’s curtains for Outfitters – literally. In...

This week marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. A group of about 300 survivors revisited the camp where 1.1 million people were murdered by agents of the German state. The general feeling among...

This week, as the world marked the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the BBC Big Question television program focused on "Is the time coming to lay the Holocaust to rest?"This network has featured several...

World leaders, foreign dignitaries and over 300 survivors of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp attended the commemoration memorial marking International Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27, 2015 and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the...

President Barack Obama issued the following statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau:On the tenth International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the...

Riveting “Blonde Poison”At The Theatre with Audrey LindenPlaywright Gail Louw’s masterpiece drama “Blonde Poison” has its American premiere at Beverly Hills Theatre 40. I was held captive for the entire ninety minutes...

Salome Jens stars as “Blonde Poison” in the U.S. premiere written by Gail Louw and directed by Jules Aaron produced for Theatre 40 by David Hunt Stafford and opening Thursday, January 8, 2015. The show based on true events.&ldquo...

In "Prisoner B-3087" Alan Gratz takes the true story of Jack Gruener and turns it into a fictional account that is a perfect way for middle grade readers to learn about the Holocaust while reading a book with action and suspense.Yanek...

2015 brings the thirtieth anniversary of Claude Lanzmann's controversial and seminal work 'Shoah'. Released in 1985, following a culmination of eleven years' research and filming, the finished work - some nine and a half hours in...

Oskar Groening, a Nazi guard at Auschwitz, will be standing trial for his role in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews at what was considered one of the worst of all concentration camps. The former Nazi guard is 93 years old, but is still...

A U.S. and France Holocaust compensation agreement has been reached this week to the expensive tune of $60 million. This massive fund is going to be allocated as reparations for thousands of remaining Holocaust survivors and their living family...

The world's worst Nazi, Alois Brunner, has been declared dead. This happened shortly after his 102 birthday. According to a Monday, Dec. 1 report by MSN, it is believed the world's worst Nazi died about four years ago, but is just now...

ALBUQUERQUE —Seventy-six years ago, on the nights of November 9-10, 1938, some 7,500 Jewish glass store windows were shattered, over 1000 synagogues were burned, homes were ransacked, many were killed and 30,000 Jewish men were taken to...